Persian Type Culture

Collection (WDCM 124)

Training Course of Microbial Resources Information Management and Utilization for Developing Countries 2-15 September 2014, WDCM

Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Beijing, China

Farzaneh Azizmohseni, Director of PTCC

PTCC at a glance Founded in 1982, by Prof. Nassrin Moazami

Member of WFCC (World Federation of Culture Collections) since 1985 WDCM 124

Recognized as regional reference center (west and central Asia),Tehran MIRCEN in 1995

Certified to meet the internationally valid quality standard of ISO 9001:2008 since 2011

Contains more than 3000 bacteria, yeast and fungi strains in public section

http://ptcc.irost.org

ptcc@irost.ir

PTCC at a glance Main Functions:

Preservation and provision of microorganisms for scientific, industrial, agricultural, environmental and medical research, teaching and other area of biotechnology and applied microbiology.

To supply scientists, research and academic institutions with PTCC strains

To act as an internationally recognized collection centre for the deposit of microorganisms, and other biological materials which have been cited in scientific literature or which are used in national or international test procedures

To function in a confidential manner, as a centre for the safe deposit of biological material

Providing information about the microbial strains which are maintained in the collection by the means of databases and website

PTCC at a glance

Services

Distribution of biologic materials

Deposit of Microorganisms

Identification and Characterization of Microorganisms

Information provision

Confirmation of culture authenticity

Special services related to microbiology and preservation

Training courses

Contract researches

PTCC Organization Chart

Director of PTCC

Deposition

Bacteria Fungi Yeast

Scientific services

Identification, Authentication

Microbiological services

Research and Training

Research groups

Specialized Labs

Training courses

Quality Management officer Executive board

Deposit of Microorganisms

Public deposit

Makes up the bulk of PTCC's holdings

Distribution from public collection to the scientific community

The deposits are catalogued and publicly available for further

study

In the case of description of new species and subspeicies the

accession numbers of at least two publicity accessible service

collections in different countries are needed

The information is published in catalogue.

Safe deposit

Safe-deposited material is neither catalogued nor distributed to third parties

The information related to the strain and the depositor remains strictly confidential

The depositor should pay the price of maintenance

Two options are possible:

1- The material is deposited for an undefined period

2- The material is deposited for a predefined period

Strains of the safe deposit collection are only available to the depositor or to third parties with the written authorization of the depositor

Preservation Conditions The strains are preserved by

freeze drying and cryopreservation (liquid nitrogen as well as Ultra freezers)

The viability of the strains will be checked periodically.

In the case of safe deposit the depositor will be received a subculture resulting from the yearly viability test.

The depositor will validate the authenticity of one the samples from freeze dried samples that the depository has prepared for long term storage

PTCC Process Map

Distributed strains 2008-2013

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Private section

Research

Univercitirs

Strains Deposited 2008-2013

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82 Strain

71 strains

70 strains

64 strains

34 strains

The Benefits of QMS Establishments

1- Monitoring all the processes in PTCC

2- Assessment the customer satisfactions

3- Traceability of the distributed strains

4- Data gathering and analysis twice in a year (Internal

audit)

5- Achieving greater consistency in the activities

involved in providing products or services

6- Increase efficiency by improving use of time and

resources

The Number of holdings

• More than 2000 Bacteria species

• More than one third of these have not been characterized!

• More than 500 fungi strain and only about one fifths have been characterized!

• About 70 yeast strains, mostly characterized, because they have been purchased from other culture collections.

PTCC Program for expansion

1- Publication of our DNA Bank until February 2015

2- Establishment of Microalgae collection until the end of 2016

3- Meeting the requirements of PTCC’s laboratories accreditation schemes based on ISO 17025 to June to August 2015

4- Creating customer database for tracing the PTCC strains in the country (Need WDCM help!)

Thank you for your attention!